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california, arizona, and new mexico have about 14-plus border agents per border mile. texas has barely over six. we had a build up in the other states pushing that trade, pushed that trading route through texas, and, congressman, i want to work with you. you have good ideas. i think the american people just want the truth. they want the truth of what is taking place, and people are stepping up and saying that, and the truth is there's a rural run-around, and we need the resources, and we need clarity with the sister states on the number of border patrol. >> the reason we have to work together as democrats and republicans, i'm in the homeland security committee, the ag committee, happy to talk to you about how the majority passed the farm bill from passing the first time in a long time. it's important to both of us as -- knowing, talking about people with farms, very important to the state of texas. it's about to expire on december, i mean, on september 30th, but on this issue, we got to work together because democrats and republicans. we had in homeland, about a thousa
california, arizona, and new mexico have about 14-plus border agents per border mile. texas has barely over six. we had a build up in the other states pushing that trade, pushed that trading route through texas, and, congressman, i want to work with you. you have good ideas. i think the american people just want the truth. they want the truth of what is taking place, and people are stepping up and saying that, and the truth is there's a rural run-around, and we need the resources, and we need...
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for a while, moved to california. i was married for a while in california and then i moved to washington and i wasn't married again, and now i'm about to get married again. [laughter] so, thank you. hopefully it's the same guy. don't forget that. [laughter] >> you don't get gifts every time he there. that's problem. so i did have this very, i certainly had a personal stake in that so i was very pleasantly surprised him outside and i do think also, i want to look at this deeper but it feels to me like this time the disconnect between the power of voting and the actual voting wasn't as big as it was in the past which just the extent that people were saying different things, if that ever was true, it feels like in this race are polling suggested that was kind of the margin and we won by the margins that were fairly close to the polling and i think if that's true that's very good news for us as we go forward with this kind of thinking. i think there was a tendency to feel that we had to really get very high numbers and so
for a while, moved to california. i was married for a while in california and then i moved to washington and i wasn't married again, and now i'm about to get married again. [laughter] so, thank you. hopefully it's the same guy. don't forget that. [laughter] >> you don't get gifts every time he there. that's problem. so i did have this very, i certainly had a personal stake in that so i was very pleasantly surprised him outside and i do think also, i want to look at this deeper but it...
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we recognize the ranking member, the government from california, for five minutes to thank you, very much, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for holding this hearing and working with the democrats to make this a bipartisan hearing. we are talking about this ongoing health tragedy. an untold number of vials of steroids were contaminated. they have sold all -- they have so far killed 32 people. it has brought unspeakable devastation to so many families. that is why i am grateful for it joyce lovelace to be here. it takes a great deal of courage to come forward. let's not lose sight of the wrongdoer. the regulators deserve blame. the primary blame is the company. we have theubpoena, the former president necc, barry cadden, we asked him to testify about how this company handled the matter. what we learned is that even 10 years ago, people who were regulating the company indicated that they had sloppy practices. in many years ago they indicated that they could have can have a meningitis outbreak. it wasn't corrected by the company. and the company went about its ways, telling people that
we recognize the ranking member, the government from california, for five minutes to thank you, very much, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for holding this hearing and working with the democrats to make this a bipartisan hearing. we are talking about this ongoing health tragedy. an untold number of vials of steroids were contaminated. they have sold all -- they have so far killed 32 people. it has brought unspeakable devastation to so many families. that is why i am grateful for it joyce...
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there was a race in northern california, in the first district of california, in which the then vice president of the united states, vice president gore, called me as democratic campaign committee and asked that i support a certain candidate who had helped him who had a family that helped him, i said mr. vice president, that candidate can't win nap candidate is too liberal for the district and we went out and recruited mike thompson, a conservative democrat. he won and he's still in congress. you have to be proactive. it will cause you problems if you're campaign chair. you have to be willing to take your loss. and also, rob emanuel did something which i started i took a lot of grief over it and rom took grief. he was right. he went out in certain districts and recruit prod life, progun democrats. there are some people like that. we are to be really a broad tent party if we get back in the majority. just doing that isn't enough. we're not going to get back in the majority solely by recruiting more conservative candidates. but you have to be very active. you have to be an activist cha
there was a race in northern california, in the first district of california, in which the then vice president of the united states, vice president gore, called me as democratic campaign committee and asked that i support a certain candidate who had helped him who had a family that helped him, i said mr. vice president, that candidate can't win nap candidate is too liberal for the district and we went out and recruited mike thompson, a conservative democrat. he won and he's still in congress....
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-- anybody from california? illinois, connecticut -- thank goodness. [laughter] what those states are doing is raising taxes, raising regulation, and so that's -- that's our, you know, we're competing and so what we do every day is find companies out there who can't compete. i think about it as this. if you're in business or think about yourself as a consumer. as a consumer, name a time you said to yourself, you know, i'll pay more for that product because they are headquartered in the high tax state. [laughter] oh, gosh, they have more regulations, i'll pay more for that because it costs the company more because they have regulations or it takes longer to get a permit. you don't do it. if we make sure that florida businesses have lower taxes, less regulations, faster permitting time, a pro-business attitude, our businesses will out compete everybody. we'll get more competitive every day. our biggest competitor is texas. texas is doing the right thing. look at the last of the eight years, texas is the number one
-- anybody from california? illinois, connecticut -- thank goodness. [laughter] what those states are doing is raising taxes, raising regulation, and so that's -- that's our, you know, we're competing and so what we do every day is find companies out there who can't compete. i think about it as this. if you're in business or think about yourself as a consumer. as a consumer, name a time you said to yourself, you know, i'll pay more for that product because they are headquartered in the high tax...
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campbell received his ba from the university of california san diego. certificate in music and political policy fry if the university of -- [inaudible] in soviet are man ya and doctorate in international relations from oxford university. she was a scholar there. to my immediate left is richard solomon the assistant sec tier of state for east asia affairs from 1989 to 1990 for president george h. w. bush. during which time he oversaw the growth in to a center of international conflict management able sis and applied programs. during the service in government he negotiated a peace treaty, the first united nations permanent five peacemaking agreement, had a leading role in the dialogue on nuclear issues between the united states and korea. helped to establish asia -- with japan monogo ya, and vietnam on important bilateral issues. in 1992, to 1993, dr. solomon serves as a u.s. ambassador to the fill philippines he coordinated the close sure of the -- dr. solomon previously served as director l policy planning at the department of state and senior staff mem
campbell received his ba from the university of california san diego. certificate in music and political policy fry if the university of -- [inaudible] in soviet are man ya and doctorate in international relations from oxford university. she was a scholar there. to my immediate left is richard solomon the assistant sec tier of state for east asia affairs from 1989 to 1990 for president george h. w. bush. during which time he oversaw the growth in to a center of international conflict management...
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it does mean in a highly competitive and highly mobile labor pool, alabama and california and texas and vermont have some sense that their kids have a common basis of knowledge. so since they came up with the national governors association, i would hope that we could have more discussion. >> i agree. michael gold is really doing a lot of work in the united kingdom. he got all excited. in the k-12 system, it goes to the heart of it. there is this deep belief that we need to develop acute self-esteem so we can perform. we need to do is tell people we need to do that to have self-esteem. because we get that right, that will be great. they are not easy to achieve, but if i could wave a wand i would make k-12 teachers america's heroes. they would be the profession that we all aspire to, they would be places like japan where they call their teachers sensei and you can feel the difference between we view those in america and those in other countries. we have decided to unionize rather than professionalize. when you do that, but you end up with is creating this in k-12. a lot of people disagree
it does mean in a highly competitive and highly mobile labor pool, alabama and california and texas and vermont have some sense that their kids have a common basis of knowledge. so since they came up with the national governors association, i would hope that we could have more discussion. >> i agree. michael gold is really doing a lot of work in the united kingdom. he got all excited. in the k-12 system, it goes to the heart of it. there is this deep belief that we need to develop acute...
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stimulus into the economy in hard-hit states like nevada, florida, ohio, colorado, pennsylvania and california than any institution. they may be more important than the fed. again, we have to look at money in politics. as i say what was then and in effect of a change of opinion. >> this is very interesting. comments from offers speakers that i want to ask at a demographic group none of you touched on this site because distant name i heard of demography being impactful in america. one out of every five americans has a disability and 51% of likely voters said they have a family member with a disability. yet, at the national press club when there was an opportunity or, as you know, the past president of the press club for the romney campaign and the obama can antisense him to some to speak about disability issues, the romney campaign showed not to attend or issue a position paper on disabilities. so i wanted to ask, why given that one out of every five americans has the disability, 51% of american voters has a family or with a disability. why isn't there more of a conversation about that demograp
stimulus into the economy in hard-hit states like nevada, florida, ohio, colorado, pennsylvania and california than any institution. they may be more important than the fed. again, we have to look at money in politics. as i say what was then and in effect of a change of opinion. >> this is very interesting. comments from offers speakers that i want to ask at a demographic group none of you touched on this site because distant name i heard of demography being impactful in america. one out...